Science - Evolution of Galaxies: People: Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

Evolution of Galaxies: People

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Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

Education

Research Interests

Dark Matter: Deviation from cold-dark-matter paradigm, interacting dark matter, primordial origin.
Gravitational Lensing: Statistics of strong-lensing observables, multi-image systems, determination of galactic sub-halo population, study of singularities in lensing map.
Early-Universe Cosmology: Models of inflation, physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, nonperturbative reheating mechanism.
Non-Gaussianity: Non-Gaussian halo bias, constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from large-scale structures, experimental detection.
Cosmological Perturbations: Inclusion of new physics in evolution of perturbations, impact on cosmic-microwave background anisotropies and structure formation.

Projects

OMEGA Explorer
Using strong lensing to study the nature of Dark Matter

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (2012 - Present)
Collaborator, NASA OMEGA Explorer Mission Proposal (2010 - 2011)
Research Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia (2008 - 2012)
Research Assistant, Department of Physics, McGill University (2006 - 2008)
Research Assistant, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2005)
Research Assistant, Institute for Quantum Computation, University of Waterloo (2004)

Selected Awards

W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology, USA (2012)
NSERC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, California Institute of Technology, USA (2011)
NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, University of British Columbia, Canada (2008-2011)
NSERC Master Canada Graduate Scholarship, McGill University, Canada (2007)
Horace Watson Medal and Prize in Physics, McGill University, Canada (2005)

Selected Publications